[FADCA] Good Afternoon FADCA Members

[Jerald A DeLong]

Doug,

Did I miss something in Orlando?

Did you resign?



Jerry, KD4YAL


On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:04 -0500, Royce, Philip wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
> 
>  
> 
>   As some of you know, I have been elected in as President of FADCA for
> this year.  For the members that don't know me, I will give you a brief
> history.  I'm a public servant, serving the State and my region with
> interoperability solutions in radio communications and trainer of
> specialized mutual aid communications equipment, and in my daytime work
> I manage the communications systems and everything else of Alachua's 911
> center and the communications needs of the county commission. I work
> with Telco's(Sprint/ATT), Mux Networks, Mesh, Wans, Lans, Pans, 700,800
> trunks A/D, Conventional VHF, UHF, P25, Astro25, OpenSky, Sat Comms.
> Most systems you learn one year and have to learn something else the
> next year because its obsolete.
> 
>  
> 
>   On the Amateur Radio side, I've served disaster services since the
> early 1980s.  My mentor was W4SS(SK), <http://www.qsl.net/w4ss>  I
> worked with Manny when I served Red Cross, and then he guided me on into
> the public service side of disaster services and into Amateur Radio.  I
> have played with packet radio since the commodore and coco and still
> have my C64 modems somewhere. I primarily do Satellite, EME, RDF, SWL,
> 1.2 and Up and digital communications when I have time sometimes
> field-day or a coordinated contest, and restore and collect 1930-1960s
> communications equipment. My Shop
> <http://forums.radioreference.com/members/ke4pwe-albums.html>  .
> 
>  
> 
>   We have many projects that we are looking at, one is real time data
> and management, completion of the Statewide LAN connections and backbone
> primarily in North Florida, and new interest in the digital modes of the
> service so that we have people to mentor into strategic areas to assist
> us in our efforts.   I'm definitely not going to say this will be done
> in a year, some have worked on this for decades. But now I would like to
> be more involved and maybe I have a few good ideas that will help this
> along, There are a lot of one man shows in different areas and we need
> to change that if possible to help them out and we do need to preserve
> the knowledge of the many that are here, and mentor new people to assist
> in the efforts.
> 
>  
> 
>    Anyone that receives this email, I have a simple request.  I would
> like everyone that is interested in packet radio, our coordination body,
> or anything involved in this group to email me with your suggestions,
> ideas, or solutions for the following items below, you can pick just one
> or all for comments:  On the last Friday of every month I will attempt
> to post a status email of what we are doing.
> 
> I have a specific email address to send this all to, please don't send
> it my ASO address in the header or your email will get lost, only listed
> addresses make it  : My digital network email address is: NFDN at cox.net
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Mapping of coordination data (in research presently)
> 
> 2) Winlink Promotion and usage (in the works, need power points of all
> packet promotion, winlink, aprs, digital modes, FADCA). SO look in your
> computers, 
> 
> and see if you have archived power points or photo, slides ect and send
> them to me, before April if possible:  NFDN at cox.net Have a hamfest
> coming up email me!
> 
> 3) Packet, where do we go from here?
> 
> 4) State Lan Circuits(backbone) and infrastructure, preservation,
> universal replacement, redundancy in case of disaster(new technology,
> for old systems)
> 
> 5) Ares, AREM services and DEC support for Winlink and Infrastructure
> 
> 6) HamWatch, promotion and implementation (if you don't know what this
> is drop a line to Bud, this is a great idea and it possible might save a
> life or give a helping hand to someone in need)
> 
> 7) Mentoring and preservation of knowledge of LANs, Packet, Winlink,
> ROSE?, FPAC, and future networks
> 
> 8) And one last thing item that I'm very fond of: Your software that you
> use, old stuff, new stuff, what's your hex editor, emprom writer,
> propagation software, plotting software, favorite packet or digital ware
> anything that involves digital or development of our Lan circuits or
> helps packet operators.. Make a list, can you share it, if it is paid
> for where do you get it, what's the web address.  What do you like about
> it? If you can share it, send it to me, I have a web server to store and
> share:. NFDN at cox.net
> 
> (my short list: Microsoft Portrait use for remote radio, HRD, WinPack,
> Paclink, AirMail, AGW, MixW, CRT remote and server, UI-VIEW, WIRES-II,
> and a VOIP server to radio via Ventrilo, experimental. Link list will be
> on yahoo NFDN in the next few weeks)
> 
>  
> 
> Lastly I would like to thank all of the people that have put so much
> effort into making these networks and solutions happen, some have moved
> on, some have past away and will be missed, some are here and want a
> break and need new people to help them out.  
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you all and 73,
> 
>  
> 
> KE4PWE - ARRL NFTS, OES
> 
> ALACHUA FPAC Gateway 145.570 KE4PWE-8,9 352375
> 
>                     Backup Lan      145.030 (temp freq: 145.030 until
> backbone for Marion EMCOMM) 
> 
> ALACHUA RMS Access:    145.030 KE4PWE-10
> 
> WA4ET DXC                       145.090
> 
> W4UFL APRS                     144.390
> 
>  
> 
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> <http://aprs.fi/?addr=gainesville%2C%20florida&mt=m&z=11&timerange=3600>
> 
> 
>  
> 
> See I tried to make it short...HIHI
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Communications interoperability is the ability of public safety agencies
> to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications
> systems, exchanging voice and/or data with one another on demand, in
> real time, when needed, and as authorized.
> 
> "SAFECOM" 
> 
>  
> 
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